vladivostok

Lt. Col. Oliver P. Robinson was chief of staff of General William S, Graves, s. 'Wolfhounds and Polar Bears: The American Expeditionary Force in Siberia ...' by John M. House, p. 58 & 183 books.google.com/books?id=mDoSDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA58#v=onep... He is depicted in this photo (middle row, third from the right): www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/31609533430/ Graves: www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/29136683602/

Oliver Prescott Robinson, Sr (1879 - 1941) www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=49303663 prabook.com/web/person-view.html?profileId=937590

Number is cut off, but probably one of these from Catalogue of official A.E.F. photographs (1919) by United States. War Dept. General Staff; United States. Army. Signal Corps: 75761 Lieut. Col. O. P. Robinson seated at his desk, front view. Vladivostok, Siberia. November 24, 1918. 75762 Lieut. Col O. P. Robinson. Vladivostok, Siberia November 24, 1918. 75763 Lieut. Col O. P. Robinson, chief of staff, A.E.F., Vladivostok, Siberia. November 24, 1918.

Thank you B-59 and Art Siegel. Too bad the number is cut off, but I agree it is probably one of the three images from the Catalogue of Official A.E.F. Photographs. We will add more information when we update.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladivostok

Written on negative 7/22/29

The 1929 use of this photo would have been to do with en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Soviet_conflict_(1929)

www.loc.gov/item/2003652864/ is a photo from 1899 that appears to be of the same stretch of waterfront. The caption mentions "the Admiral's Garden stretching along the Bay ... and the Uspenskii Sobor (Cathedral of the Assumption)," which look to be in this picture.

In www.wayfarersbookshop.com/WayfarersSeptember2013-Arctic.php scroll down to items 49 and 50 -- roughly half the way down. A search on the page for "49." will find it as the second hit. Item 49 is a panorama taken from further back, captioned "Beautiful panorama of downtown Vladivostok looking east, with the Golden Horn Bay and numerous naval and commercial ships on the right, and Eagle’s Nest Hill on the left. The central part of the panorama shows a perfect overview of the city’s downtown core – the conjunction of Svetlanskaya and Aleutskaya Streets, with busy commercial and residential developments. Among the buildings shown are: Vladivostok Dormition Cathedral (completed in 1899, destroyed by Soviet government in 1938); rails and cars of the Trans-Siberian Railroad in the foreground; newly built bank offices; city wharfs with administrative buildings et al." Item 50 has two photographs and the lower one looks identical to the Bain photo here. It is captioned, "looking east, with the Golden Horn Bay and numerous naval and commercial ships on the right, and the conjunction of Svetlanskaya and Aleutskaya Streets on the left. The locomotive moving on the Trans-Siberian Railroad is seen in the foreground, and the busy commercial and residential development of Svetlanskaya Street is in the background, with the recently completed Vladivostok Dormition Cathedral (1899)." I hadn't noticed the locomotive until now.

Church of the Intercession of the Theotokos (Church of the Intercession of the Mother of God) in Vladivostok. Like so many Russian churches, it would be seized by those aligned with the Bolsheviks, ultimately to be closed and dynamited by the Communists (who also seized the land and adjacent cemetery). Surely to add insult to injury, a monument to Lenin was built on the foundation of the demolished church. In 1991, the land was returned to the Orthodox Church and construction of a new church at the site was completed in 2007. See: vladivostok.travel/en/todo/the-temples-of-vladivostok/ wikimapia.org/5581337/Church-of-the-Intercession-of-the-T...